The USA is in a position it has never been facing before. Never in history has another country caused so much unease, instilled so much fear, anxiety and basically paralyzing the USA and making it desperately insecure.
China is not just any competitor that the USA can just put it thumb down and step upon, like Germany and Japan. China is a peer competitor for the USA in almost every sector of the economic wheel, in every mode of manufacturing, in every development in technology from space exploration, telecommunication innovation, infrastructure development, high speed rail expertise, shipbuilding know-how and is giving the USA a run for its money in semiconductors and aviation as well.
The USA wants to contain China and is formulating all the wrong policies just to make China economically insecure. The trade wars, technology wars, sanctions, and now tariffs are all the means that the USA is using to try to wrestle back control of the global economic power, and which is pivoting to the East and in particular towards China.
In order to contain China, the USA had to rely on the alliance of the EU, Canada, Australia, Japan and India to assist in its endeavor, thereby making these allies pay a heavy price on its behalf. Success is still an elusive dream for the USA, while the price of failure is already evident in Europe and likewise in Japan.
Now there is an energy crisis unfolding in Europe, which is of its own making, and which will help the USA to sell more oil and gas to Europe. The USA is insidiously creating an energy crisis in Europe to back Trump's threat of forcing the EU to buy more oil and gas from the USA. And this is now happening without even needing tariffs to force the Europeans to comply. Zelenskyy is giving a big hand in helping the USA in this direction.
Bringing back manufacturing to the USA is an elusive pipe dream. No way can the USA do that with high wages, lack of raw materials, manpower with poor working attitudes and having a belated start compared to China. China had already monopolized supply chains from the extraction of raw materials to finished products two decades earlier. Sure, raw materials are abundant in many countries like Canada and Australia, but investors have to contend with the threat of China making their investments worthless by turning into white elephants by flooding the market. Thus, the USA is now stuck between a rock and a hard place.
To make the situation even more unpleasant is the policy of Trump threatening to get rid of immigrants by the millions. These are supposed to be replaced by higher wage USA workers that are basically too used to enjoying cheap Chinese products without having to work hard to earn their keeps. Employers are unhappy while Unions are in support of Trump's move. And in tandem with Trump, countries in Europe and Australia are following the USA by going after immigrants.
The Whites are telling the non-Whites to get out of their country. How about the Native American Indians telling the Whites to go back to Europe from where they came from as North America belongs to their ancestors thousands of years ago. Or the Aborigines telling the White Australians to go back to the UK as Australia belongs to their ancestors.
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